Top 57 Quotes About Global Poverty

#1. Trade justice for the developing world and for this generation is a truly significant way for the developed countries to show commitment to bringing about an end to global poverty.

Nelson Mandela

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#2. Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

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#3. With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.

Kumi Naidoo

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#4. I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.

Tom Shadyac

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#5. Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.

Margaret Catley-Carlson

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#6. I simply am going to look you in the eye and say that if the United States hopes to remain a major player among nations, facing challenges such as poverty, inadequate education, and global market competition, we're going to need to draw deeply from our entire talent pool, not just half of it.

Kathy Cloninger

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#7. Time and again we've seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can be producers on fair terms in the global economy.

Leila Janah

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#8. I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.

Andy Stanley

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#9. I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty.

Anne M. Mulcahy

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#10. The world needed changing - that I knew. Global warming threatened to give us all a lethal tan; war and poverty decimated whole nations; crops worldwide were shriveling; even our brethren beasts menaced us with their monkey pox and bird flu and mad cow disease.

Jeff Deck

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#11. Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

Hugh Evans

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#12. Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

William J. Clinton

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#13. In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

Kofi Annan

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#14. Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

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#15. The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.

Alex Steffen

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#16. By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

Peter Diamandis

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#17. Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

Nicholas Stern

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#18. In our day, this global offensive plays a well-defines role. Its aim is to justify te very unequal income distribution between countries and social elates, to convince the poor that poverty is the result of the children they don't avoid having, and to dam the rebellious advance of the masses.

Eduardo Galeano

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#19. Once our family was very small and we used to say, 'our planet has enough resources to feed all of us' but today, we are not that family and it is a burden on our planet to feed us. We have to reconsider our views and confess 'our planet has not enough resources to feed all of us anymore'.

M.F. Moonzajer

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#20. I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery really compare to the differences you make by donating to the charities that fight global poverty.

Peter Singer

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#21. With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and instead give future generations the opportunities they need to rise to their fullest potential.

Helene D. Gayle

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#22. Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

Leila Janah

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#23. Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

Richard J. Foster

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#24. If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.

Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

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#25. I'm the founder and CEO of Sama Group, a family of social enterprises - Samasource, Samahope and SamaUSA - that are working to alleviate poverty by connecting the global community to opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean and here in the U.S.

Leila Janah

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#26. The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.

Natalie Portman

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#27. The Global Poverty Project's mission is to stand up for the world's poorest people. We fight for the full funding of Millennium Development Goals and advocate meaningful change to government and corporate policies that block progress and entrench injustice.

Hugh Evans

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#28. Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we must offer nations and people a pathway out of poverty. And as president I've made development a pillar of our foreign policy, alongside diplomacy and defense.

Barack Obama

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#29. My dick didn't seem to be aware that she was there. She kept asking me what was wrong, and I was so out of it that I thought she meant what was wrong with the world, so I started talking about global poverty and shit. I'm not surprised she left. I suspect she won't be coming back.

Nikki Sixx

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#30. King consistently argued that rich Western nations had moral and political responsibilities to redress global poverty, something they would never do without world disarmament.

Thomas F. Jackson

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#31. Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not sleepwalk into catastrophe. We have the capacity to forsee and forestall, and I believe we will find the will to act

Jonathan Dimbleby

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#32. The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

Iqbal Quadir

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#33. Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty.

Jonathan Morduch

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#34. We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth.

Al Gore

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#35. This book argues that through inclusive finance, companies can make money and help solve the global problem of poverty. By inclusive finance we mean opening access to high-quality financial services to everyone who needs them, especially low-income and previously excluded people. We also discuss how

Elizabeth Rhyne

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#36. A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

Thabo Mbeki

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#37. As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

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#38. That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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#39. Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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#40. When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.

Klaus Schwab

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#41. We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands.
It is as simple as that.
It is the rich who are making the world poorer.
Environment and Poverty are one crisis, not two.

Petra Kelly

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#42. If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

Gordon Brown

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#43. I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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#44. It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global end-not a reduction, but an end-to absolute poverty ... I have always found that a committed, powerful group of leaders, can make a huge difference.

Jeffrey Sachs

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#45. Global poverty is an input on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

Michel Chossudovsky

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#46. You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

Noel Gallagher

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#47. Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

Bill Gates

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#48. the encyclical also deals with poverty, the destruction of biodiversity, the pollution of fresh water and the oceans, sustainable food, extractive industries, and the waste created by the global economy.

Pope Francis

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#49. We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.

Mark Zuckerberg

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#50. It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

Thomas Pogge

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#51. If poverty defines greatness, then become the poorest person on earth, in terms of weakness and bigotry. And if wealth defines glory, then become the wealthiest person on earth, in terms of courage, confidence and reasoning.

Abhijit Naskar

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#52. The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.

Bill Gates

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#53. I recognize that globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve to death. It is true that global wealth is growing in absolute terms, but inequalities have also grown and new poverty arisen.

Pope Francis

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#54. In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

Ahmed Ben Bella

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#55. The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.

Al Franken

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#56. I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

Marc Andreesen

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#57. I died last night. Seventy years too young.

Colin Thompson

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